
Dr. G. S. PETRY. 



A NEW 

RECEIPT BOOK 

FOR THE 

TREATMENT OF ALL KINDS OF 

CANCER 

WITHOUT CUTTING, BURNING 
OR LOSS OF BLOOD. 

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BY DR. G. S. PETRY; 

REDDICK, KANKAKEE COUNTY, ILLINOIS 



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State of Illinois, ) ^« 
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I, G. S. Petry, do solemnly swear that this book 
is a complete treatise of nay knowledge of curing can- 
cer as practiced by me in my thirty years of experience. 

Dr. G. S. Petry. 

Subscribed and sworn to, before me this 11th day 
of April A. D. 1894. W. S. Allison, 

Notary Public. 



Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1894, 

By Dr. G. S. Petry, Reddick, III., 

in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. 



AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 



For years past Cancer has been so fatal in 
its results that the people at large have been led 
to look upon an affliction of cancer as certain 
death. The Medical Profession has held noth- 
ing more of hope before such suffering victims 
than the surgeon's knife or a red-hot iron. But 
cancer originating from a diseased blood does 
not succumb to a surgical operation as does a 
wounded or crushed limb. Though driven away 
for a time it will reappear again when only 
these external means oppose it. In fact in all 
my experience of over thirty years I have never 
found a single instance where a permanent cure 
of cancer was effected by the use of the knife. 
Many of the so-called cancers are only common 
tumors and in such cases an operation is all 
right and the cure will be permanent. Should 
any one be skeptical enough on this point to 
make an investigation he will find the truth of 
my statement. 



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For the past 30 years I have successfully 
treated cancers of all descriptions and stages of 
development without ever making an operation 
on the wound or causing the loss of a drop of 

blood. 

Now that I am advanced in years and physic- 
ally unable to engage in the active practice of 
medicine, I have concluded to publish, for the 
benefit of the public, a full and complete ac- 
count of my system of treatment for all kinds 
of cancers. 

Why die of cancer ? It can be cured simply, 
easily and painlessly as a few of the many testi- 
monials will go to show. 

Use Dr. Petry's Cancer Remedy, which ef- 
fectually and permanently cures all cancers 
without the surgeon's instruments. If you are 
suffering from cancer, avoid the tortures of a 
living death by- giving this wonderful remedy a 
trial. The cure will serve to convince you of its 
merits. Hoping by the means of this book I 
may put both remedy and system of treatment 
in the hands of those so afflicted and thereby be 
of some service to many of humanity's unfort- 
unates, I am Cordially Yours, 

Dr. G. S. Petry. 



Chapter 1. 

In my opening chapter I will make a brief 
survey of the ground I expect to cover and give 
to the public an adequate idea of this disease in 
its worst forms and its fatality to the human 
race. 

Cancer like fever appears under different 
forms and authorities differ on the number of 
kinds of cancer — some goin^ so far as to put 
the number at eight others down to five. In my 
practice of more than thirty years I have come 
across what I would pronounce seven different 
varieties. Some noted physicians often call 
tumors, cancers, which if added would swell the 
number much larger. These tumors are the can- 
cers which the eminent surgeon points to as 
successfully removed by his knife. True the 
cure was effected in the proper way but it was 
no cancer. 

Cancer is a disease originating in a bad blood 
and should receive internal as well as external 



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treatment. It has rightly been styled a dreaded 
disease, for aside from such terrible diseases as 
leprosy, etc., no disease is more loathsome than 
cancer nor produces death more horribly. From 
some English statistics 1 chanced to read these 
startling figures of the prevalence of cancer in 
England alone. In five years the fatalities on 
that island from cancer was, females 13,783, 
males 6,426 making a total of over 20,000 
deaths by cancer alone in five consecutive years. 
From this may be seen the extent of this dis- 
ease. With no adequate treatment these poor 
unfortunates fall ready victims to the Grim 
Reaper. I shall consider each kind of cancer, 
devoting a chapter to symptoms and treatment 
of each variety. 



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Chapter II. 

Scirrhus or Hard Cancer is the first and is 
perhaps the most frequently met with, being 
that which we find affecting the breasts of 
females though by no means confined to this 
locality alone. After once attacking the breast 
it is quite likely to b3 undiscovered until it at- 
tains considerable size. Thus before medical ad- 
vice is sought the disease takes a firm hold upon 
the system. The Scirrhus cancer is of three 
varieties — the Acute or Rapid growing; the 
Chronic or slow growing; the Lardaceous or 
softer form. 

Symptoms. — The general symptoms of 
Scirrhus cancer consist in the discovery of a 
hard, unyielding lump which may vary in 
size from that of a pea to that of a goose egg or 
larger. At first it is not attended by any pain 
unless injured in some manner. It generally lies 
loose in the tissue or part but is sometimes at- 



tached to the skin or deeper seated parts of the 
chest. To the touch it is quite hard and has a 
rough or nodulated surface, some portions ap- 
pearing more prominent than others. If closely 
watched it will be found to steadily increase in 
size with a greater or less rapidity, if previously 
loose it will be found to have attached itself al- 
though quite loosely. Up to this stage it may 
be said to be painless and in fact gives rise to 
irritation of some nerve and this may take place 
while the tumor is yet small. The pains are not 
yet constant but are described as of a stinging 
darting character described by patients as a 
crawling sensation. 

Much indifference on the part of the patient 
is due from the fact that the pain is not severe 
and they naturally infer that the disease is not 
serious, and not until the tumor has attained an 
inconvenient size do they think of applying for 
treatment — a most fatal mistake. 

The tumor now being of considerable size 
is composed of a mass of cells, each of which 
possesses the power of reproduction and multi- 
plication. 



Cancer 



Root, commonly called 



..beech drops." (See page 9.) 



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Internal Treatment. 

In all kinds of cancer the internal treatment 
remains the same throughout. 

Cancer powder for internal use. 

Flowers of sulphur 2 oz. 

Spikenard root 2 oz. 

Asafoetida "pulv." $ oz. 

Cream of Tartar y oz. 

Dose, i teaspoonful, when retiring. 

All the above ingredients should be well pul- 
verized and thoroughly mixed into a homoge. 
neous powder. 

Cancer Tea, for internal use. 

Cancer-root— commonly called beech drops 
— is found in northern United States and 
extensively in Canada in large forests and is 
always found growing at the foot of beech trees, 
hence the name "beech drops." The plant has 
a bitter taste and is parasitic, growing on the 
roots of the beech tree. The plant is leafless, 
the stem being of a dark or chocolate color. 
These being gathered root and stem should be 
dried in the shade and then ground and put in 
air-tight vessels, keeping it dry and away from 



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the light. The best time of the year to gather 
the root is in the fall of the year and near 
full moon, when the plant is most fully charged 
with sap. This should be done before frost. 

In preparation of the cancer tea take three 
(3) tablespoonfuls of this cancer-root pulver- 
ized and one quart of soft water and allow this 
to simmer [not boil] down to about li pints of the 
liquid. Then strain off the tea and to the sedi- 
ment add another pint of soft water and allow 
to simmer as before down to i pint, then strain 
again. This will give one quart of cancer-root tea 
which in warm weather must be kept in a cool 
place, to prevent the liquid from souring. Care 
should be exercised and only an entirely new ves- 
sel be used in which to prepare this tea as it is 
absolutely necessary that the vessel should be free 
from oils or grease of every kind. 

Directions for internal medicine. 

The tea should be taken three times a day, 
one hour before meals. Dose, one tablespoonful. 

The powder should likewise be taken upon 
retiring. Dose, i teaspoonful as mentioned; 
the internal treatment as here described is 
used for all kinds of cancer to be hereafter 
spoken of. 



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External treatment for cancer. 

In all cases where the tumor has not yet de- 
veloped into an ulcer or running sore, apply 
tincture of Iodine twice a day till the skin 
cracks open. In case the iodine fails to produce 
the desired effect the following liniment will be 
found effectual: — 

Oil of Wormwood \ ounce 

Oil of Cedar 2 drams 

Oil of Hemlock 2 drams 

Oil of Origanum 2 drams 

Tine. Iodine \ ounce 

Alcohol \ pint. 

Mix and apply twice a day as in the case of 
the iodine. When the surface of the tumor has 
been cracked open by the application of the 
iodine or liniment it is then ready to have the 
cancer salve applied. 

Cancer Salve. How made. 

Take the sheep sorrel, which has a blue blos- 
som, known also under the name of "Sour 
Clover," growing generally in new sandy land, 
gather while plant is in blossom. This should 
be taken root and stock and extract the juice 
from it. Place this juice in a clean earthen or 
porcelain vessel and allow to simmer down un- 



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til it has the thickness and consistency of apple 
butter or thick molasses. It is then ready for 
application to cancer. Take a thin white cloth, 
rub the surface with cold tallow to prevent the 
salve from running through the cloth, then 
spread this salve, as thickly as it can be endured, 
over the cloth and apply to the cancer. This 
salve is to be kept on the cancer during the day- 
time only. This salve should be kept away from 
the light as when not kept in a dark place it 
loses its strength. In case the salve hardens 
by age it can be made of the proper consistency 
by mixing in a little pure cider vinegar when it 
is fresh as new. At night on removing the plas- 
ter the cancer should be thoroughly washed in 
a strong lukewarm tea, made from the blossoms 
of the red clover. After this it should be poul- 
ticed for the night. The poultice to be made 
from the Red Elm bark ground fine, prepared in 
the following manner: Place a sufficient amount, 
of the ground Elm bark, to make a poultice 
large enough for the cancer, in a vessel and 
pour on boiling water. This should then be 
stirred thoroughly till it is of the proper thick- 
ness for a poultice. Then put the poultice in a 
cheese cloth sack and put over the sore. This is 



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done to prevent the poultice from adhering to 
the cancer and avoid the difficulty of removing 
it when dry. The cheese cloth allows the poul- 
tice to do its work but at the same time pre- 
vents the poultice from sticking to the cancer. 
The cancer should thus be poulticed during 
the night. The cancer salve should be applied 
by day and the Elm bark poultice by night un- 
til the sharp shooting pains have entirely dis- 
appeared. Then the healing salve should be ap- 
plied until the wound is entirely healed over. 

Healing Salve. How made. 

Take sweet cream and boil it, stirring it 
continually to keep from burning until the oil 
and cheese separate. Then take this oil and 
when cold to about a pint of it add eight or ten 
drops of Carbolic acid and six grains of White 
Vitriol. Mix thoroughly and apply this as a 
salve to the cancer to heal it up. This should 
be continued until the wound is entirely healed. 

Particular notice should here be taken that 
the external treatment for all cancers is alike 
with the exception of different salves to be here- 
after noticed. 

In all cases of cancer three things must be 
guarded against — Inflammation, Erysipelas and 



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Exuberant granulation or Proud flesh. When 
any of these set in the cancer salve ceases to 
work. This is apt to affect any cancer. 

In case of inflammation, if the plant called 
Live-for-ever can be had, take the leaves, bruise 
them up and put them on the affected garts. This 
will serve to reduce the inflammation in a short 
time. If in the wrong season of the year to obtain 
it or if otherwise inconvenient make a poultice 
from buckwheat flour and after it has become cold 
put it on the inflamed parts. This will be found 
quite effectual. 

If Erysipelas sets in, make an ointment 
by frying a handful of parsley, root and 
branch, in a pint of clean lard. Then strain 
and add a tablespoonful of pulverized camphor 
gum and it is ready for use. Spread on a cloth 
and place on the affected parts, leaving it on 
several hours at a time. 

In case of Proud Flesh take burnt alum and 
brown sugar equal parts and apply. These will 
be found effectual in all cases. 



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Chapter III. 

Encephaloid, Rose or Soft Cancer. This 
takes its name from its resemblance, in consist- 
ency to the brain. It is the most rapid in growth, 
attacking various parts of the body and com- 
mencing in different forms. When it attacks 
the breast, like a Scirrhus cancer, it is first no- 
ticed as a small lump, which appears to be com- 
pressible or elastic causing it to be confounded 
at times with other kinds of tumors, abscesses 
or gatherings of the breast. When assuming 
the acute form its growth is quite rapid, fre- 
quently attaining an enormous size in but a few 
weeks after its first discovery. By their pres- 
sure they cause the skin to tighten and become 
red. The skin soon gives away and a soft fun- 
gus growth rapidly protrudes from the orifice 
resembling Proud llesh. This assumes a great 
variety of shapes, frequently rolling over on it- 
self in folds thus causing it to be called a Rose 
cancer. If allowed its own course the tumor 
culminates in ulceration or sloughing with a 
profuse and foul discharge. Large masses of 
the tumor failing longer to receive nourishment 
slough out leaving an irregular wound often 
opening blood vessels of sufficient size to cause 



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serious hemorrhage. This form of cancer is espe- 
cially apt to form about the face as in the eye or 
on the lips where it first appears as a crack from 
which this soft elastic growth springs in the form 
of a button like protuberance. This soon forms 
into an ulcer, breaks and the cancer begins to 
affect the surrounding parts. 

Treatment. 

The internal treatment to be followed is 
precisely the same as in the case of Scirrhus 
cancer. 

External treatment. 

Every morning the cancer should be washed 
carefully with a strong lukewarm tea made 
from red clover blossoms. The wound should 
be evenly dusted with very finely pulverized 
cancer-root. Then take a pound of California 
figs and pound them to a pulp. Then place 
them as a salve upon the cancer. In bad cases 
where the discharge is profuse the sore must be 
dressed twice a day with the fig pulp. In most 
cases every morning is sufficient. At night the 
sore should be thoroughly cleansed with red 
clover tea and the Red Elm bark poultice ap- 
plied precisely as in the case of Scirrhus cancer. 



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In some cases the fig pulp has been found 
to be inactive in which case an extract of cran- 
berry juice was found to act very effectively. 
This is prepared by crushing the cranberries 
and straining the juice through a cloth to free it 
of seeds, etc. The juice is then allowed to sim- 
mer down in an earthen vessel over a slow fire 
till it is quite thick. Then allow to cool and it 
is ready for application. Spread this on a cloth 
and apply to the cancer as in the case of the fig 
pulp. 

When the pains have entirely disappeared 
it is an evidence that the cancer is dead and for 
a healing ointment use the cream salve as in the 
foregoing case. Continue until the wound is 
completely healed over. 



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Chapter IV. 

Another variety of cancer is called the Col- 
loid and is not so frequent as the ones just men- 
tioned. Some medical authorities do not ac- 
knowledge this as a distinct variety of cancer 
but class it among Recurrent Tumors. 

Colloid cancer is not so often met with on 
the surface of the body but is more frequently 
found internally located in the bowels or stom- 
ach. Its characteristic feature is that it is com- 
posed of cells which are filled with a gelatinous 
matter like honey in the comb. 

Internal treatment. 

Use the cancer tea and powder as pre- 
scribed in the first case. 

External treatment. 

Make a wash of one gill of brandy, two 
tablespoonfuls of salt and 20 drops of carbolic 
acid and bathe the sore three times a day. After 
bathing, dust the sore with finely pulverized 
cancer-root. Then cover the sore with a cloth 
spread thinly with mutton tallow. After the 
cancer has been destroyed, heal up the wound 
with the cream salve. 



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Chapter V. 

Melanosis or Black Cancer is another variety 
occasionally met with. It closely resembles the 
Encephaloid cancer in its manner of growth and 
general character. Its peculiarity and distin- 
guishing characteristic is that it is composed of 
cells filled with a large quantity of black color- 
ing matter. It will not readily be mistaken for 
any other variety as it is much darker than any 
of the rest. 

Internal treatment. 

Identical with the foregoing. 

External treatment. 

Take the yolk of a fresh egg and an equal 
amount of pulverized table salt and a similar 
quantity of garlic pulverized fine. Mix these 
thoroughly into a paste to apply to the cancer. 

Wash the cancer with the strong lukewarm 
tea of red clover blossoms and then apply the 
above paste as a salve. This is to be applied 
daily and at night put on the Red Elm bark 
poultice previously described. When the cancer 
has been killed, heal the wound over with the 
cream salve as in other cases of cancer. 



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Chapter VI. 

We are now to treat of another cancer 
known as the Epithelial or Cutaneous. This is 
the kind that generally attacks the skin or mu- 
cus membrane without first giving rise to any 
tumor. If there is any evidence of its presence 
it is in a small wart and is attended with little 
or no pain. It is generally found near some of 
the natural outlets of the body as the nose, 
mouth, etc., but is also frequently met with upon 
the skin of the hand, body or face. It is noticed 
under a variety of forms in its beginning. It 
may appear as a small pimple which soon breaks 
down leaving an ulcer with high edges and 
rapidly spreading cavitj. It may originate as a 
mere crack in the lip or nose which is only con- 
sidered as a cold sore until it has, made consid- 
erable*progress. This soon forms into an eating 
ulcer. Sometimes it is first found as a mere 
scab which loosens and peels off discharging a 
sticky matter forming another scab, but each 
time larger than before until it becomes an open 
ulcer. 

Another form is that of a Scirrhus wart 
which is first taken to be a seed wart, but soon 
begins to get sore and maturates when it 



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becomes an ulcer. These all possess the power 
of affecting the surrounding glands, spreading 
in them the same disease and we have a fully 
developed cancer. 

Treatment. Internal medicine is the same 
in this case as in all others, the tea and powder. 

External treatment. 

When the scab has dropped off, apply equal 
parts of extract of strawberries and extract of 
cranberries and turpentine, mixed, making a 
kind of salve. Apply this during the day and 
at night use the Elm bark poultice. When 
there is no more tendency to form a scab the 
cancer is dead and the sore should be healed 
over by the use of the cream salve. This is the 
last of the external cancers and now we come 
to those which affect the internal organs. 



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Chapter VII. 
Cancer of the Stomach or Bowels. 

Unlike cancers on the surface of the body 
the internal cancer is only apparent from its 
symptoms and cannot be seen like the former. 

The first evidences of an internal cancer is 
that the patient experiences an oppressive sen- 
sation in the stomach after meals. Rich foods 
cause a more distressing feeling than any other. 
Strong coffee is especially distressing as is vine- 
gar and sour foods. As the cancer progresses 
the symptoms are similar to those of dyspepsia 
and is often mistaken by physicians for dyspep- 
sia. The patient spits up particles of food and 
feels as if a hard lump was in the stomach. 
This keeps on progressing and intense pain is 
produced until a few hours before death it 
ceases and vomiting sets in and the patient dies. 

Treatment. 

Nothing in the way of drink should be 
taken into the stomach except Red Clover tea 
[made from red clover blossoms] cancer tea and 
sweet milk. 



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In the way of foods nothing except cracker 
soup, oyster soup, rice, fresh fish, oatmeal 
should be eaten. Caution against eating too 
much should be taken. It is better to take a 
little at a time and four or five times a day. 

Directions. 

The cancer tea should be taken in table- 
spoonful doses three times a day, one hour be- 
fore meals. Take a teaspoonful of extract of 
sheep sorrel, add one drachm of Magnesia- 
calcined and dissolve it in about a pint of 
cold water and take a tablespoonful of this mix- 
ture three times a day, two hours after meals. 
In case the extract of sheep sorrel produces a 
bad effect on the stomach as it does with some 
persons, causing vomiting, this should be re- 
placed by extract of cranberries prepared in the 
same way and taken under the same directions. 

Careful attention should be paid to the in • 
ternal medicine in all kinds of cancer as my ex- 
perience has taught me that it is far more im- 
portant than the external as it reaches the seat 
of cancer — the blood. 



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Chapter VIII. 

At the close of this short work on cancers 
it may be well to mention a few of the many 
causes which produce these terrible sores. 
Man}^ times in my practice I have been asked 
w 7 hat causes these cancers so I will take a short 
space here to discuss that briefly. In all my ex- 
perience every case of cancer on a female's 
breast could be traced to a bruise or to tight 
lacing, with the exception of a single instance 
where it was caused by milk drying in the 
breast making a nucleous from which the cancer 
began to grow. But the majority of all cancers 
originate from poisonous blood which is caused 
in many w r ays. 

The blood may be made impure in man} 7 
ways as impure air and impure foods taken into 
the system but I will mention one way especially 
which poisons the blood, that is the eating of 
articles and fruits canned up in tin cans which 
by their natural acids attack the tin thus poison- 
ing the contents and when this is taken into the 
system it gradually poisons the blood and can- 
cer is the natural result. Too much care can not 
be exercised in the selection of foods which are 
free from these poisons. The large proportion 



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of cancer cases occurring in the city where fruit 
canned in tin cans is extensively used is indic- 
ative of something. And I believe many of our 
cancer cases might be traced directly *to this 
source. Of course not all foods put up in tin 
cans become poisonous but only those which 
have an acid that attacks the tin. It can readily 
be detected whether foods are in danger of be- 
ing affected, by examining the inside of the 
can. If it is bright the food is all right but if 
the surface is tarnished it shows evidence of acid 
acting upon it and it is unsafe to use it. 

Chapter IX. 

In closing I wish to add a few words on 
the care to be exercised by patients themselves. 
It is exceedingly important that one suffering 
from cancer should be very careful of his diet 
and habits of life. 

In drink especially should the patient guard 
himself. He should abstain from the use of 
strong drink and all kinds of liquor. Sweet 
milk and chocolate is the best drink that can be 
used, and may be taken quite extensively. It is 
almost an impossibility to effect a cure of can- 
cer on a patient who is addicted to strong drink, 



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the tobacco habit or the opium or morphine 
habit. These must be dispensed with if the pa- 
tient hopes to become cured of his cancer. Only 
the most wholesome foods should be taken into 
the system and the patient should guard against 
overheating the blood Dor contracting cold. If 
the utmost care is used by the patient and the 
treatment as prescribed is carefully followed 
the cure of almost an3 r cancer is a simple mat- 
ter. 



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Chapter X. 

In the closing chapter I will add a few of 
the many testimonials in my possession to show 
the practical effects of this system of cancer 
treatment. It will be seen that these are all 
reliable parties who are ready to testify to the 
merits of the cancer cure as set forth in this 
little book. 

Marseilles, La Salle Co., 111., April 19th, 1878. 
I owe more than my humble thanks to Dr. G. S. 
Petry for the remarkable cancer cure he effected on 
my face. It was considered a very bad cancer and 
pronounced incurable. It aftected my whole system 
and I had been treated by other cancer physicians. I 
was in a cancer hospital in Chicago for some time and 
had the cancer cut out, but all to no avail. I had 
given up all hopes of being cured, when I was per- 
suaded to try Dr. Petry, and he cured me without cut, 
burn or loss of blood. I would cheerfully recommend 
Dr. Petry to all who sutler from cancer. 

Joseph Fertig. 

Gardner, Grundy Co., 111., March 27, 1879. 
Dr. G. S. Petry, 

Dear Sir:— I feel more than thankful to you for 
curing a lump on the under lid of my eye which was 
pronounced a bad cancer of more than six years stand- 
ing. Many physicians called it a cancer and advised 
me to have it cut out immediately to save my eye, 
and I employed one physician who burned it out with 
caustic. It healed over but in a few weeks com- 
menced to grow faster than ever. Under Dr. Petry's 
treatment it has been entirely cured for over nine 
months and no signs of its return to this day. 

Respectfully yours, 

S. Dlamatter. 



CABERYj Ford Co.. 111.. April 28, 1878. 
Thanks alone would be an insufficient remunera- 
tion to Dr. G. S. Petry for his successful treatment 
of cancer on my face without the use of a knife, sear- 
ing iron, or causing the loss of a drop of blood. The 
entire treatment was attended with very little pain. 
I can recommend Dr. Petry. 

Mahyann Imhoff. 



Gardner, Grundy Co., 111., June 3, 1880. 
This is to certify that my wife was a sufferer of 
cancer in her nose and she is now completely cured by 
Dr G. S. Petry. No cutting, no burning, no loss of 
blood and very little pain. I would advise any one 
suffering with cancer to try Dr. G. S. Petry' s remedy. 

J. H. Kauffman. 



Gardner, Grundy Co., 111., March 24, 1879. 
Thanks cannot express my gratitude to Dr. G. S. 
Petry for his successful cancer cure effected on me. I 
had a cancer on my nose for twenty-four years and 
now I am completely cured, and it was accomplished 
without cutting, burning, or loss of blood. 

Matilda Snyder. 



San Francisco, Cal., June 27, 1880. 
Dr. G. S. Petry, 

Dear Sir: — I have a friend here that has a cancer 
on his face the same as I had which your medicine 
cured without cutting or burning. The doctors all 
call it a cancer. If you will please send me $5.00 
worth of the same medicine you sent me I will send 
you the money. Yours truly, 

61, 62, & 63, Col. Market. S. T. Pike. 



Ford P, O., Ford Co., Kansas, May 30, 1880. 
Dr. G. S. Petry, 

Sir: — The cancer on my lip is cured by your med- 
icine and I owe my thanks to you for the successful 
cure of my lip. Yours truly, 

I. Ford. 



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Highland, 111 , July 19, 1880. 
I wish to express my gratitude to Dr. G. S. Petry 
for curing my wife of a cancer on her neck. It was 
called by some of the best doctors the worst kind of a 
cancer and now it is completely cured. The cure was 
eflected without cutting, burning or loss of blood, and 
was attended with no pain, and entirely healed up in 
six weeks. I would recommend all sufferers of cancer 
to Dr. Petry whose success in treatment of cancer is 
unbounded. U. R. Ellis. 

Beaverdam, Kosciusko Co., Ind., Nov. 1, 1886. 

For the benefit of all those suffering with cancer, 
I write the following : 

About nine months ago my mother had a very 
bad cancer on her leg and was treated by a cancer doc- 
tor, getting worse all the time. He then pronounced 
it an incurable cancer. We then sent for Dr. G. S. 
Petry, who called it an Insidious cancer and began 
treatment. In four days all the inflammation and 
pain was gone and in six weeks she was entirely well 
and has been well since. Yours, 

John Kuhn. 

Joliet, Will Co., 111., Aug. 24, 1878. 
Dr. G. S. Petry, 

Dear Sir:— I owe more than my thanks for curing 
a cancer on my daughter's face. A physician in Mt. 
Carroll, 111., pronounced it a Rose cancer and burned 
it out with acid but did not cure it. I then applied to 
Dr Petry, who called it a Scirrhus cancer and his 
remedy cured it in a short time. 

Rev. L. Willeman. 



Cabery, Illinois, Aug. 4th, 1894. 

Eleven years ago Dr. Petry of Reddick, 111., cured 

a cancer on the left side of my face. It has never 

shown any sign of returning and my general health 

has been good since. Yours for suffering humanity, 

Mrs. S. J. Elliott. 



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Nevada, Illinois, December 15, 1884. 
To all whom it may concern : — I hereby certify 
that a cancer on my nose and a part of my upper lip, 
of 18 years standing, having destroyed my nose and 
upper lip, has been completely cured by Dr. G. S. 
Petry. I had -been treated by many other physicians 
who pronounced it as incurable, and had spent much 
money in vain. It is now perfectly cured by Dr. 
Petry without either cutting or burning. I give my 
gratitude to him, and for his benefit as well as for the 
good of other sufferers of cancer, I give this certifi- 
cate in good laith. George Martin. 

I am the mother of the above George Martin and 
hereby certify that the above is true. 

Mrs. Mary Martin. 



Naperville, 111., April 21, 1894. 

I will now make known to the public that 1 have 
been troubled with a sore ankle for twenty-five years. 
It was a veriuse ulcer. Some doctors called it King's 
Evil. I have spent hundreds of dollars and found 
no cure until I met Dr. G. S. Petry of Reddick, 111., 
and used his medicine. Now I am well and my ankle 
is cured and for a small sum. 

B. F. Bender. 

Streator, La Salle Co., 111., Nov. 22, 1890. 
A remarkable success, for ten months ago I was 
very sick. I had a very bad cancer in my breast. It 
had gone so far that I gave up all hopes of recovering. 
I went to two doctors in Streator and both told me 
that the breast had to be taken off. Both are prom- 
inent doctors and one of them said he would take the 
case in hand for $150. Through the providence of 
God Dr. G. S. Petry, of Reddick, 111., came along and 
cured me without cutting: or burning or loss of blood. 
I can recommend Dr. Petry, of Roddick, with all 
confidence to any one who may be afflicted as I was. 
Mrs. S. Hood Brockford. 
South Streatw, III. 



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Columbus, Cherokee Co., Kan., April 25, 1894. 
This is to certify that in 1892 I had a sore on the 
side of my face and the doctors in Columbus examined 
me and all said it was a cancer and they wanted to cut 
it out, but I would not give my consent to it. Dr. G. 
S. Petry, of Reddick, 111., removed it without cutting 
or burning or loss of blood and without pain. I feel 
indeed grateful to the doctor for his successful cure. 

Edward Blinco. 



Bradewood, 111., Oct. 14th, 1893. 

I have the pleasure of saying that I was healed of 
a cancer on my face of about nine years standing, by 
the help of God and through Dr. G. S. Petry, of Red- 
dick, 111. His cancer remedy healed me in about 
seven weeks without cutting or burning it out. 

Anna E. Smith. 



Mazon, Grundy Co., 111., March 12, 1883. 
Dr. G. S. Petry:— I owe you, my dear friend, a 
thousand thanks for your success in curing a cancer 
on my wife's hand after employing several doctors 
who finally concluded that the hand must be taken 
off. Following the advice of one of my neighbors I 
employed Dr. Petry and her hand was entirely cured 
in less than six weeks without cutting, burning or 
loss of blood and without any.pain. I advise any one 
who suffers from cancer to go to Dr. G. S. Petry. 
Sulphur Springs, III. George Herold. 

Gardner, Illinois, June 1, 1894. 
We feel it our duty to make known to the public 
and suffering community at large that the Rev. Co- 
dey, at one time pastor of the Baptist Church here, 
after being operated on twice with the knife for the 
cure of a cancer of the lip, and proving unsuccessful, 
was duly cured by Dr. Petry without the aid of a 
knife or being burned. 

Wm. L. Smith, Pharmacist. 

J. H. Melhuish, Pharmacist. 



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Gardner, 111., Dec. 1, 1888. 
This is to certify that I was cured of a cancer on 
my ankle in the year 1887 by the use of medicine pre- 
scribed for me by Dr. G. S. Petry of Reddick, 111. I 
am sixt3^-six years old and have the best of health and 
can truly recommend Dr. G. S. Petry's remedy to the 
public, Chloe Booth. 

Naperville, 111., April 10, 1894. 
Dr. Petry, 

Dear Sir: — I am very thankful and pleased for the 
opportunity of informing you and the public of the 
cure you effected on me. I would advise all who 
are suffering from old sores to call on Dr. Petry of 
Reddick, Illinois. For twelve years I suffered with a 
sore on one of my ankles. It discharged matter from 
twelve different places and I went about on crutches 
all that time and my leg wasted half away and it was 
hardly ever free from pain. Dr. Petry w^as in Naper- 
ville attending a few cancer cases and I was advised 
by a friend to let him examine my ankle. I told him 
it was useless as I had 17 different doctors at work on 
it up to the present time. My friend insisted and I 
finally called on Dr. Petry. I found his charges so 
light that I took treatment from him two months. At 
the end of that time I left my crutches in the back 
yard and have had no use for them since. In a short 
time my ankle was perfectly sound, all of which I 
owe to Dr. Petry. Youfs very respectfully, 

G. W. Decker. 



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Chapter XI. 

I will add at the close of this little book 
some valuable receipts which I have found to be 
very effective in many cases which I have met 
in my many years of practice. They form no 
part of the treatise on cancer, but are rather a 
supplement to it. I give them to the public at 
this time because it is very convenient at the 
issuing of my cancer work to add a few pages 
and it may serve to benefit some of my patrons. 
Among these receipts will be found other meth- 
ods of treating cancer, the use of which I only 
advise when my previous remedies have been 
given a thorough trial. My experience has 
taught me that it is rarely if ever necessary to 
resort to any other treatment than that pre- 
scribed in the fore part of this work. 

There are also other cancer remedies recom- 
mended of which we will name a few: 

One is — take yellow dock root and boil it 
in soft water and wash the sore with it. 

Another is to put on crushed cranberries, 
changing every six hours. 

Another, put table salt in the best brandy, 
as much salt as it will dissolve, and wash the 
sore with it. 



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Another, take a handful of beech drops 
and four stems of Live-for-ever root (commonly 
called so), blood root two tablespoonfuls, placed 
in a clean crock, and pour in two quarts soft 
water and simmer down in the crock to one 
pint then add to it about three ounces of fresh 
butter, and bees wax the size of a walnut and 
simmer down until the juice is all evaporated, 
then it is ready for use. 

Another, take alum one ounce, borax one 
ounce, cow urine four gallons, boil down to one 
gallon and wash the sore four times a day. 

Cure for Rose Cancer. 

Take good ripe tomatoes, slice them and 
apply to the sore three times a day, and keep 
this up till the roots are all dead. Then apply 
the healing salve. 

Good Poultices. 

(a) Take white beans one pint, cook and 
mash, and add one teaspoonful saleratus and 
apply to the sore. 

(b) Take the roots of garden carrots 2 
ounces, flour of Red Elm bark half-ounce, boil- 
ing water sufficient to form a poultice. Used 
on tumors and painful sores. 



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(c) Take pulverized charcoal and common 
baker's yeast a sufficient quantity to form a 
poultice; or take pulverized charcoal one ounce, 
powdered flaxseed 2 ounces, common Elm poul- 
tice one pint, and soaked bread one teacupful ; 
mix and stir well. If it is too thick add hot 

water. 

To Relieve Pain 

and inflammation in cancer treatments, take a 
heaping teaspoonful of the compound, powder 
of Jalap, which may be mixed with half this 
quantity of cream of tartar and a gill of water. 
If necessary, repeat in two or three days. 

Whenever fever is in the sore, stop using 
the salve and apply poultice of slippery elm or 
starch until the fever is out. 

Caution to Patients. 

First use very little salt in your food, and 
no vinegar at all or any spirits, or tobacco. 
Beware of using any fruit put U P in tin fruit 
cans as it is blood poisoning. 

For Tumors 

I use the following, 

Iodine \ dr. 

Alcohol 1 oz. 

mix and apply twice a day with a feather, till 



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the skin commences to crack, then apply once 
a day or every other day. 

Or Oil of Wormwood 4 dr. 

Oil of Cedar 2 dr. 

Oil of Hemlock 2 dr. 

Oil of Amber 2 dr. 

Oil of Origanum 2 dr. 

Alcohol i pt. 
Wash twice a day. 

Salt Rheum. 

First use some good blood cleansing medi- 
cine and then apply the pure pine tar in the 
way of a plaster, completely covering the sore, 
and let it remain nine days. When removing 
the plaster saturate the cloth with fish oil until 
it is easily removed. Then wash the sore with 
sulphur soap and apply cod liver oil as a healing 
ointment. Cleanse every day by washing with 
the sulphur soap. The cod liver oil is best 
applied on oil paper as a cloth absorbs too much 
of the oil. Keep up this treatment until the 
sore is healed, giving the limb as much rest as 

possible. 

For Gangrene. 

Take one pill of bichlqrid, dissolve in one 
pint water, and wash the sore three times a 



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day — and internally take port wine and peru- 
vian bark, the compound wine of comfrey, or 
carbonate of ammonia, etc. , being careful not to 
administer these stimulants as long as any in- 
flammatory symptoms remain and the pulse is 
strong. 

For Melanosis or Black Cancer. 

Take equal parts of arsenic, charcoal made 
from black alder, and ashes from dog wood. 
Wet the cancer on the center, put as much of 
the compound on the wet place as can be held 
on the point of a pen knife. Place a thin piece 
of cloth over the cancer and wet with the yolk 
of an egg to make it stick. Press and apply 
every day, always put powder on center of can- 
cer. If too painful put poultice of Live-for-ever 
or bread and sweet milk over the other plaster. 

A Remedy 

for Cancers, Tumors, Carbuncles, Swellings. 
Sore Throat, Ulcerations of the Mouth, Indo- 
lent Ulcers, Ophthalmia, Boils and all Painful 
Tumors, Scrofula of the Womb, Gravel and 
Bleeding of the Kidneys, and Ulcerations of the 
Bladder : — Take the round leaved Pyrola. This 
is a perennial evergreen shrub, common in 



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various parts of the U. S., bearing numerous 
white flowers in June. It is also known by the 
names, Pear Leaf, Wintergreen, Canker Let- 
tuce, Shin Leaf. The herb is tannic ; it has been 
used in decoction both externally and internally. 
Dose : —From one to six grains of the extract 
repeated three or four times daily. Externally 
the decoction will be found an excellent local 
application in sore throat. 

Epithelial or Cutaneous Cancer, 

by some called Spider Cancer, commences with 
a brown spot under the skin, and through a 
magnifying glass you can see the roots which 
look like spider legs. 

(1). For external use take one pint of olive 
oil, and put in a bottle with about 25 spiders ; 
cork tightly and hang in the sun till they are all 
dissolved, then add three tablespoonf uls of gun- 
powder and one teacupful of brown sugar and 
apply three times a day. 

(2). Take turpentine one ounce, and oil of 
camphor one ounce, and potassa of bicarbonas 
one ounce, and the juice of poke berries one 
pint; mix and add flowers of sulphur enough to 
make a salve. If you can't get the poke berries 
take the juice of cranberries. 



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A certain cure for the bite of Mad 
Dogs and other Animals. 

Directions: — For one person take a quart 
of Strong Beer, and one ounce of Redchick 
Weed; put it into a clear earthen vessel and 
boil it over coals till it is reduced one-half; 
take one ounce of Venice Treacle, or Teriac as 
it is sometimes called, put it in, stir it well, and 
strain it boiling hot through a piece of clean 
linen into a pewter dish. Let it stand till it is 
lukewarm. Bottle it, and use as follows: If 
the person bitten is of a strong constitution, 
the whole dose must be given at three equal 
draughts; all doses must be taken according to 
the constitution of the patient. For a growing 
person of a weak constitution, a gill every 
morning, for three mornings, is sufficient. For 
a child of 12 years of age, one-half the quan- 
tity of each kind is sufficient; the whole meas- 
ure of Beer to be taken. A small child re- 
quires less. 

A beast must have an ounce of each kind 
taken at a dose; keep your beast from water or 
anything greasy for two weeks. Rye-bran and 
water may answer for drink to be given cold. 
The medicine must be warmed in a clear vessel. 



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If persons have already got the malady, 
and cannot take the medicine without assistance, 
those giving the medicine, must be cautious of 
the breath of the diseased — for it is dangerous 
to catch. The medicine is to be taken in the 
morning, after fasting several hours; abstain 
from fresh water; a little wine and water may 
be taken, but not immediately after taking the 
medicine. The day on which the medicine is 
taken, a pancake baked in butter may be taken 
for dinner. The cloths which the person was 
bitten in ought to be buried or burned. The 
wounds must be well washed out at a running 
stream, with an oak stick with some of the 
medicine for several days. 

For healing the wound, any drawing salve 
is sufficient. After using the medicine the pa- 
tient must abstain about two weeks from eating 
anything that contains pork or baked in lard. 
Water fowls and fish must not be eaten; all 
sorts of cabbage, sour and sweet beans or peas 
must be abstained from for two weeks; gentle 
sweating is very beneficial. The patient must 
be cautious against overheating himself or get- 
ting angry. By following these directions the 
medicine will cure even when already mad, af- 
ter the first and second fit or malady. 



41 



A Remedy for Hydrophobia, 

The time between the biting of an animal 
by a mad dog and the showing signs of hydro- 
phobia is not less than nine days but may be 
nine months. After the animal has become 
rabid, a bite or scratch with his teeth upon a 
person, or slabber coming in contact with a sore 
or raw place, would produce hydrophobia just 
as soon as though he had been bitten by a mad 
dog. Hydrophobia can be prevented, and I will 
give you what is known to be an infallible rem- 
edy if properly administered, for man and beast; 
a dose for a horse or cow should be four times 
as great as for a person. It is not too late to 
give the medicine any time before the spasms 
come on. The first dose for a person is 1| oz. 
Elecampane root, bruised, put in a pint of new 
milk, reduced to one half by boiling, ihen taken 
all at one dose in the morning, fasting until 
afternoon, or at least a very light diet after 
several hours have elapsed. The second dose 
the same as the first, except take 2 oz. of the 

( 



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root ; third dose same as the last, to be taken 
every other day. Three doses are all that are 
needed, and there need be no fear. 

This I know from my own experience; and 
I know of a number of other cases where it has 
been entirely successful. This is no guess work. 
Those persons to whom I allude were bitten by 
their own rabid dogs, that had been bitten by 
rabid dogs, and were penned up to see if the}' 
would go mad ; they did go mad and did bite 
the persons. This remedy has been used in and 
about Philadelphia 40 years or longer, with 
great success, and is known as the Goodman 
remedy. I am acquainted with a physician who 
told me that he knows of its use for more than 
30 years, and never knew a case that failed 
where it was properly administered. Among 
other cases he mentioned, one was where a 
number of cows had been bitten by a mad dog ; 
to half the number they administered this rem- 
edy, to the other half, not ; the latter all died 
with hydrophobia, while those that took the 
Elecampane and milk showed no signs of the 
disease. R. C, Shoemaker. 

Montgomery Co., Pa. 



43 — 



VALUABLE RECEIPTS 

Proved by DR. G. S. PETRY and Others. 



WHOOPING COUGH. 

Raw linseed oil one half pint, honey one 
half pint, brandy or rye whiskey one half pint, 
boil. Dose, one teaspoonful three times a day. 

JAUNDICE. 

Jaundice root one ounce pulverized. Dose, 
one fourth teaspoonful twice a day. 

SORE EYES. 

Snow or rain water one pint, white vitriol 
one drachm, rock candy one ounce. Filter 
through silk paper, wash morning and evening. 

RHEUMATISM OR NEURALGIA. 

Pure rye whiskey one quart, pure white 
pine gum one ounce, black cohish one ounce. 
After dissolved, dose one tablespoonful in wa- 
ter before or after meals. 



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ERYSIPELAS, ITCH, IVY POISON, OLD SORES. 

One pint of clean lard, parsley root and 

stock one handful, camphor gum pulverized 

one tablespoonful. Fry and strain then ready 

to use. 

FELONS. 

Slack lime in soft soap, spread thick on a 
rag then wrap over felon ten to fifteen minutes 
before felon is open. 

CHAFING IN CHILDREN. 

Subnitrate of bismuth, tie a s-mall quantity 

in a coarse flannel rag and dust the chafed parts. 

Or take compound of cabeum tooth powder. 

Dermal powder. 

BURNS. 

Equal parts lard, raw linseed oil, mutton 
tallow, bees wax, melt and mix. 

RUN AROUND. 

Wrap the finger in cotton batting until 

healed. 

CATARRH. 

Citric acid in one pint rain water, syringe 

twice a da v. 

MAGIC LINIMENT. 

To one pint hot drops made with alcohol, 
add two ounces each, oil of sassafras, oil of hem- 



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lock, spirits of turpentine and camphor, and 
one ounce each of oil of origanum and oil of 
cinnamon, when made add lard oil or linseed oil, 
one sixth part of the whole bulk or about one 
gill. This forms a valuable liniment in sprains, 
bruises, rheumatism, neuralgia, or wherever a 
liniment is needed. 

BLOOD PURIFIER. 

Iodide of potassium, from two to ten grains 
in cold water twice a da)'. 

LINIMENTS. 

For internal or external use: 

Alcohol 1 .jt. 

Oil of Sassafras 1 oz. 

Oil of Origanum 1 oz. 

Oil of Peppermint ^ oz. 

Camphor § oz. 

Chloroform 2 dr. 

Capsicum *2 oz. 

Ether of Sulphuric 1J oz. 

Dose: From 5 to 2-"> drops in cold water 

for internal use and for external bathe the parts 

afflicted. This liniment is good for all kinds 

of pains. 

LIGHTNING OIL. 

For internal and external use. Cramp 
Colic, Diarrhea, Cholem, Rheumatism, Neu- 
ralgia, Toothache Mid sores: 



46 



Oil of Sassafras 


1| OS. 


Oil of Cinnamon 


1 oz. 


Oil of Wintefgreen 


Hoz. 


Camphor 


i oz. 


Assafetida 


i oz. 


White Glue 


£ oz. 


Capsicum 


8 gr. 


Mix and put in a bottle, cork tightly and 


set in warm place for ten daj<s, 


shaking it fre- 


quently. 




PAIN LINIMENT. 




Maple Molasses 


1 teacup 


Yellow Sugar 
Strained Honey 


1 teacup 


1 teacup 


Glycerine 


1 teacup 


Sweet Oil 


1 teacup 


Carbolic Acid 1 teaspoonful 


or 30 drops 


Mix cold and shake each time before using. 


LINIMENT FOR SWELLING FEVER SORES OR 


RUNNING SORES. 




Alcohol 


1 pt. 


Sweet Oil 


Hoz. 


Castor Oil 


l|oz. 


Rain Water 


i pt. 


Pulverized Borax 


2 dr. 



Put the alcohol, sweet oil and castor oil 
together and let stand until well mixed before 
putting in the water and the borax. 

Remedy for sores caused by lye or acids. 
Wash with pure cider vinegar. 



DIARRHEA. 




Alcohol 


1 qt. 


Oil of Origanum 


1 oz. 


Oil of Sassafras 


lioz: 


Oil of Peppermint 


4 dr. 


Gum Camphor 


3 dr. 


Tincture of Capsicum 


4 oz. 


Sulphuric Ether 


12 dr. 


Chloroform 


2 dr. 


Mix. Dose: Half teaspoonful three times 


a day. 




CROUP. 




Raw Linseed Oil 


1 qt. 


Oil of Cedar 


2 dr. 


Oil of Sassafras 


3 dr. 


Oil of Hemlock 


3 dr. 


Oil of Origanum 


1+ oz. 


Tincture of Lobelia 


1 dr. 



Mix. Dose: i teaspoonful every 2 hours 
until better. During croup keep hands and feet 
warm and the neck cold. 

RHEUMATISM. For Internal use. 



Old Rye Whiskey 


lqt. 


Flower of Sulphur 


2 oz. 


Cream of Tartar 


2 oz. 


Saltpeter 


i oz. 


Snakeroot 


i oz. 


Gum Quack 


£ oz. 



Dose: One tablespoonful twice a day. 



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AGUE. 

Alcohol 1 pt . 

Quinia 20 gr. 

Tincture of Rhubarb 25 gr. 

Capsicum 20 gr. 

Myrrh 20 gr. 

Dose: 1 teaspoonful 3 times a day in cold 

water. 

GOLDEN SEAL. 

Raw Linseed Oil 1 qt. 

Oil of Cedar 2 dr. 

Oil of Origanum 2 dr. 

Oil of Sassafras 3 dr. 

Oil of Hemlock 2 dr. 

Gum of Camphor \ oz. 

Dose: 1 teaspoonful. It is good for 

coughs, colds, or pains in the bowels or the 
stomach. 

CHOLERA BALM. 

Alcohol 1 pt. 

Spirits of Camphor 3 oz. 

Tincture of Opium \ oz. 

Tincture of Capsicum 1 oz. 

Syrup of Ginger \ oz. 

Peppermint i oz. 

Dose: One teaspoonful. 



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FOR CANCER AND OTHER SORES. 



Rain Water 4 gal. 

Aloes 2 oz. 



Borax 2 oz. 

White Vitriol 2 oz. 



Mix and boil down to one gallon. Wash 
the sore with this twice a day. 

ALL KINDS OF SORES. 



Soft Water 1 pt 

Alcohol 1 pt 

Balsam of Tola 4 oz. 
To be used extern all} 7 . 



Castor Oil 1 pt. 

Borax 1 oz. 



OLD SORES. 

Yellow of two raw eggs. 

Pulverized Charcoal 1 oz. 

Flower of Sulphur 1 oz. 

Glycerine 2 oz. 

Sweet spirits of Nitre 1 oz. 
Mix and wash. 

FOR RUNNING SORES ON THE LIMBS. 

Apply a poultice, for six hours, made of 
hop yeast and pulverized charcoal lukewarm, 
after that wash the sore with fresh milk. Then 
take pure pine tar and spread it on a piece of 
scorched linen, then apply it to the sore and 
leave it on for 9 days. When the 9 days are up 
then remove the cloth, greasing it first with lard 
or fish oil so it will remove easily. Then w T ash 
the sore with 1 pint of lukewarm soft water 
to which there has been added 20 drops of car- 
bolic acid. After this dress the sore twice a 
day and apply cod liver oil. 



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FOR OLD SORES. 

Ashes from good cigars and ashes from 
linen cloth and white chalk, equal parts of each; 
apply to the sore. 

FRESH SORES AND ALL SORES. 

Soft Water 1 qt. Nut Gall powder 1 oz. 

Litharge 1 oz. White Vitriol 2 dr. 

Wash twice a day. 

FEVER IN SORES. 

Bluestone in Rye Whiskey or soft water, 
as much as will dissolve and wash the sore. 

PROUD FLESH. 



Soft Water 3 oz. 

Burnt Alum 2 dr. 



Brown Sugar 1 oz. 
Nitric Acid 2 dr. 



Sublimate 1 Sc. 



FELON. 



The raw yolk of an egg and as much salt. 
Mix well and tie on felon from 25 to 30 minutes. 

Nettle Sting resembling Erysipelas. It 
stings and itches. The signs are the same as 
Liver Complaint. Wash first with salt water, 
then wash with tea made from nettle and also 
drink some of the tea. 

A Valuable Remedy for Backache and 
Suppressed Urine is Medicament. It may be 
obtained at most drug stores. Sweet Nitre is 
good for the urine. 



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RING WORM. 



Place two old copper pennies, or pure copper, 
in two tablespoonfuls of good cider vinegar. 
When the vinegar is green, wash the sore twice 
a day. 

BOILS AND CARBUNCLES. 

Brown Sugar \ lb. | Beeswax \ lb. 

Sheep Tallow J lb. | Honev 1 pt. 

Sweet Oil, 1 gill. 

SALT RHEUM. 

Rock Oil 1 oz. | Opodeldoc 1 oz. 

Spike Oil 1 oz. | Turpentine 1 oz. 

Mix and apply twice a day. Keep a wet 
cold cloth on all the time. 



CHAPPED HANDS AND TETTER. 

Olive Oil 1 oz. | Caustic 1 dr. 

Glycerine 1 oz. | Carbolic Acid 10 dr'ps. 

Mix and apply twice a day. 

For Poison, grease with Sweet Spirits of 
Nitre three times a day. 

Hair in the Stomach, commonly caused by 
children playing with cats and dogs, thereby 
getting hair into the mouth. Take sugar and 
scraped turnip, mix and let stand for 24: hours, 
then use the juice. Dose : One tablespoonful 
three times a day. The signs are loss of appe- 
tite and health until they become very poor. 



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JOINT WATER. 

Take a new white clay pipe and pulverize it 
as fine as dust and put on the sore. 

For Swelling on man or beast : Take "fine 
cut" tobacco and make a strong tea ; wash two 
or three times a day. 

FOR ULCERS. 



Raw T Linseed Oil 1 pt. 
Olive Oil i pt. 



Sheep Tallow -J- pt. 
Beeswax 1 lb. 



Horse Mint, 1 handful. 
Mullen Flowers, 1 teacupful. 
Fry and strain in the tallow and mix. 



WHITE SWELLING, AND SALT RHEUM, 

Etc., Etc. 

Comf rey Root 2 handf uls. 
Bayberry Oil 2 oz. | Sheep Tallow i oz. 

Pine Gum 2 oz. | Beeswax ± oz. 

Rosin 2 oz. | Castile Soap . 2 oz. 

Fresh, Unsalted Butter 4 oz. 
Dog's Oil 4 oz. | Sweet Oil J- oz. 

Pure Neat Foot Oil i oz. 

Mix, put in a clean crock and boil one and 
one-half hours, continually stirring with a 
w r ooden stick and strain, then add 

Tincture of Myrrh 1 oz. 

Burnt Alum 1 oz. 

Tincture of Camphor 1 oz. 



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BURNS. 

Beeswax 1 pt. Raw Linseed Oil 1 pt. 

Sheep Tallow 1 pt. Lard 1 pt. 

Melt and mix. 

Another. — Burn a piece of linen cloth 
until it is all black. Apply linseed oil on the 
sore, then cover with the burnt cloth. Repeat 
every two days until healed. 

Another. — Sweet Cream -J- pt. Raw Lin- 
seed Oil i pt. Mix and apply to the sore. 

OIL FOR BURNS. 



Rye Whiskey 1 qt. | Camphor 
Aloes 1 oz. | Opium 
Mullen flowers 2 handfuls, White 


1 oz. 

2 dr. 
Lilies 1 


handful. 

Use externally and internally. 





BURNS. 

Grease three times a day with cold sweet 
cream and keep the air from the sore, or use 

Alcohol 1 pt., Green Nettle, stalk and 
leaves 1 handful. Mix: Take one tablespoonful 
of this and put it in 1 pt. of cold water. Then 
take white cotton batting and wet it in this wa- 
ter Solution. Apply to the burn and keep it wet 
with this Solution until all the fire is drawn 
out, then use Pain liniment as previously pre- 
scribed. 



Soft Water 


£ pt. 


Borax 


1 oz. 


Saleratus 


1 oz. 



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BURNS, SPRAINS, SWELLING, ETC. 

Olive Oil i pt. 

Alcohol i pt. 

Bluestone 1 dr. 

Sore from stepping in a nail. Place the 
foot half an hour in Rye Whiskey three times a 
clay for three days, then use any healing salve 
or liniment. 

SPRAINS. 

Oil of Olive and as much Camphor as it 
will dissolve. 

PAIN OR SWELLING. 

Take f gallon strong Smart Weed tea add 
1 oz. Alum and wash parts afflicted. 

FEVER SWEATS, 

Sweet milk 1 teacupful, add one raw egg, 
brandy 3 tablespoonfuls. Dose — one-half tea- 
spoonful daily and wash daily with Saleratus 
water and eat all the lemons you can. 

COUGH. 

Tea of Red Clove Blossom is excellent. 

COUGH. 

Laudanum 1 tablespoonful 

Wine of Ipecac 1 tablespoonful 

Honey 12 tablespoonfuls 

Cider Vinegar 12 tablespoonfuls 

Dose: For children one teaspoonful 3 times 
a day. 



SYRUP FOR CONSUMPTION OR COUGH. 



Raw Linseed oil \ pt. 


Brandy 


ipt. 


Hoarhound tea \ pt. 


Gum Arabic 


1 oz. 


Laudanum \ oz. 


Paregoric ' 


2 oz. 


Ipecaeuan 2 dr. 


Loaf Sugar 


fib. 


Juice of boiled onions \ pt. 




Dose: Small tablespoonful three 


times a 


day. 







COUGH SYRUP. 

Seven onions boiled in one quart of soft 
water. > 

Seven tablespoonf uls flax seed boiled in one 
pint of soft water. One handful Hoarhound 
boiled in one pint of soft water. Strain all and 
put them together, add 1 oz. of Paregoric and 
If lb. best brown sugar and boil down to one 
quart. Dose: one tablespoonful three times a 
day. 

CONSUMPTION. 

Rye Whiskey 1 qt. Squill 2 oz. 

Hyssops 2 oz. Dandelion Root 2 oz. 

Put in a bottle and set in a warm place for 
ten days shaking it frequently. Dose: 1 table- 
spoonful three times a day. 

COUGH MEDICINE. 

Wheat bran 1 qt. | Rain Water 2 qt. 

Boil and strain then add 
Slippery Elm Tea 1 pt. | Lemon Oil 1 oz. 

Sugar i lb. 

Dose: One tablespoonful three times a 
day. 



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Another Cough Medicine. 



Raisins 1 lb. 

Licorice Gum 2 oz. 



Loaf Sugar 1 lb. 

Rain Water 2 qt. 



Mix and boil down to one quart. Dose: 
One tablespoonful. 

DYSPEPSIA. 

First keep the bowels regular and take Bi- 
carbonate of Soda or Potassa. Dose : One grain 
three times a day; or, take Carbonate of Potassa 
for two weeks, the size of a pea, three times a 
day in a little cold water, then increase the dose 
double after the two weeks. Eat nothing greasy 
and no food containing Saleratus or Baking 
Powder. 

FLUX. 

One pint warm fresh milk, taken as soon as 
milked, pure white glue 1 dr., and one-half tea- 
cupful of weeping willow leaves (if obtainable) 
and cook a little and drink warm, divided into 
three doses, morning, noon and evening, and 
take good ripe field corn and roast and use in- 
stead of coffee for drink. 

To Stop Vomiting caused from stomach or 
other reasons : Take from 1 to 2 teaspoonfuls of 
common table salt. 

RUPTURE. 

Grease frequently with Bayberry oil and 
wear a truss until healed. 



ITCH. 

Take Yellow Dock root and scrape it and 
put in a hog bladder and bury it 24 hours in the 
ground. Before burying it, add to the Yellow 
Dock 1 lb. of lard and Flower of Sulphur 4 oz. 
Apply once a day. 

GRAVEL. 

Three tablespoonfuls of the white from 
chicken droppings in one pint of cider vinegar. 
Let stand 24 hours, shaking frequently. Strain. 
Dose— one tablespoonful three times a day, and 
then use daily a tea made from the tops of car- 
rots and water melon seeds, sweetened with 
honey. 

PILES. 

Bitter Aloes 1 oz., in 1 pt. Rye Whiskey. 
Dose — one tablespoonful once a day ; or, 

Get Kidney Nuts and eat three a day. Ex- 
ternal, take some of the grease found on the 
shafts of machinery and grease the sore, or take 
pure fish oil, — or grease with Bayberry oil. 

SICK HEADACHE. 

Alcohol I pt. Quinia 8 gr. 

Rhubarb 10 gr. Myrrh 10 gr. 

Capsicum 11 gr. 
Dose: 5 to 15 drops or take fine charcoal 
one teaspoonful in cold water. 

HEADACHE AND EARACHE. 

Wash the part afflicted with bay rum. 



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ERYSIPELAS. 

Sugar of lead 1 oz. | Soft Water i gaL 

Mix and wash. 

SMALL POX. 

Hot Rain Water 1 pt. add Cream of Tartar 1 oz. 
When cold make in three doses and take 
one hour apart. Keep ordinarily cool. 

SMALL POX AND SCARLET FEVER. 

Sulphate of Zinc 1 gr. . Foxglove (Digitalis) 
1 gr. Sugar | teaspoonful. 

Mix with two teaspoonfuls of water then 
when thoroughly mixed add four ounces of 
water. Take a teaspoonful every hour. Either 
disease will disappear in twelve hours. For 
children smaller doses according to ages. 



INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LINIMENT FOR 
CHOLERA, CRAMPS, ETC. 



Oil of Cedar 2 dr. 

Oil of Amber 2 dr. 
Oil of Wormwood 3 dr. 
Opium 2 Sc. 



Oil of Hemlock 2 dr. 

Oil of Origanum 2 dr. 

Oil of Iodine 1 dr. 

Alcohol | pt. 



BLOOD PURIFIER. 



Dandelion Root, Burdock Root, Yellow 
Dock Root, of each one handful, boil in 2 qts. 
soft water down to 1 qt. Dose — 1 tablespoon- 
ful three times a day. 



59 



PAIN KILLER. 



Myrrh \\ oz. 



Guaiacum Resin 1 oz. 



Red Pepper 1 dr. Alcohol diluted 2 pts. 

Oil of Anise Seed 1 dr. 
Mix and shake frequently for 5 days then 
filter. 

PAIN KILLER. 

Take one teaspoonful of Compound Pow- 
der of Jalap. Then take \ of the powder and 
mix it in one gill of soft water and take inter- 
nally. If necessary repeat in two or three days. 
This liniment is used especially for continuing 
pain as in Tumors, Cancers and Rheumatism. 



CONTENTS. 



Author's Preface S 

General Remarks on Cancer 5 

Scirrhus or Hard Cancer 7 

Cancer Powder for internal use 9 

Cancer Tea for internal use 9 

External treatment for Cancer 11 

Cancer Salve 11 

Healing Salve 13 

Encephaloid, Rose or Soft Cancer and treatment 15, 34 

Colloid Cancer and treatment 18 

Melanosis or Black Cancer and treatment 19, 37 

Epithelial or Cutaneous Cancer and treatment.... 20, 38 

Cancer of the Stomach or Bowels 22 

Causes of Cancers . . 24 

Instructions to Patiente 25, 35 

Testimonials 27 

Various Cancer Remedies 33 

Good Poultices 34 

To Relieve Pain 35 

For Tumors 35 

Salt Rheum .36, 51 

For Gangrene 36 

A Remedy 37 

Cure for the bite of Mad Dogs and other Animals 39 

A Remedy for Hydrophobia 41 

VALUABLE RECEIPTS PROVED BY DR. O. S. PETRY 
AND OTHERS. 

Whooping Cough 43 

Jaundice 43 

Sore Eyes 43 

Rheumatism or Neuralgia 43 

Erysipelas, Itch, Ivy Poison, Old Sores 44 

Felons 44, 50 

Charing in Children 44 

Burns 44, 53 

Run Around 44 

Catarrh 44 

Magic Liniment 44 

Blood Purifier 45, 58 

Lini ments 45 



Lightning Oil.. 45 

Pain Liniment 46 

Liniment for Sores 46 

Diarrhea 47 

Croup 47 

Rheumatism 47 

Ague 48 

Golden Seal 48 

Cholera Balm 48 

For Cancer and other Sores 49 

All kinds of Sores 49 

For Running Sores 49 

For Fresh and OldSores 50 

Fever in Sores 50 

Proud Flesh 50 

Nettle Sting 50 

A Valuable Remedy..... 50 

Ring Worm 51 

Boils and Carbuncles 51 

Chapped hands and Tetter 51 

For Poison 51 

Hair in the Stomach 51 

Joint Water 52 

For Swelling 52 

For Ulcers 52 

White Swelling, Salt Rheum, etc., 52 

Burns, Sprains, Swelling, etc., 54 

Fever Sweats 54 

Cough ....54 

Syrup for Consumption or Cough 55 

Cough Medicine 55 

Another Cough Medicine 56 

Dyspepsia 56 

Flux 56 

To Stop Vomiting 56 

Rupture 56 

Itch 57 

Gravel 57 

Piles 57 

Sick Headache 57 

Erysipelas 58 

Small Pox and Scarlet Fever 58 

Liniments for Cholera, Cramps, etc., 58 

Pain Killer 59 



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